Re: [PATCH v3 1/2] spi: dw: Clear DMAC register when done or stopped

[Serge Semin <Sergey.Semin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 07:12:19PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 08:54:20PM +0300, Serge Semin wrote:
> > On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 06:51:00PM +0100, Mark Brown wrote:
> > > On Fri, May 15, 2020 at 08:48:54PM +0300, Serge Semin wrote:
> 
> > > > Acked-by: Mark Brown <broonie@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> > > I didn't ack this but Andy did (or at least the for-5.8 version)?
> 
> > Andy said he needs Fixes field to get his RB tag. You said:
> > "This and patch 4 look good ..." Normally this means to get Acked-by.
> 
> Unless someone explicitly gives you a tag for something you shouldn't
> usually assume that one applies, especially with maintainers giving acks
> on their own trees since that has process meaning - it's saying that the
> maintainer is OK with it being applied to some other tree which is
> something it's worth being careful about.

Hm, it depends on maintainer and sub-system then. I did such "looks good" ->
Acked-by conversions before. Not that many, but noone argued. [1] also says it's
sometimes possible. Anyway, sorry for inconvenience. I'll get to remember that
I'd better ask explicit acked-by from you, no assumption.

[1] Documentation/process/submitting-patches.rst

-Sergey

> 
> On the other hand if someone says "if you do X you can add tag Y" and
> you do X then you can generally add the tag if you do Y.